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Shirley Bassey: Greatest Hits
by AAJ Staff
Riding the tail end of her Propellerhead-ed revival and the never-ending revival of the Bond films, the sassy Ms. Bassey is back with a retrospective of her decades of well-dictioned themes. Bassey plays her trump cards and also bluffs a few hands on tunes ranging from her unrivaled 007 three-fer of Diamonds are Forever," Moonraker" and Goldfinger," to splashy show tunes like Big Spender" and attempts at pop coverage--like a note- and gender-bending take on The Beatles’ Something" and a ...
read moreShirley Bassey: History Repeating
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1997, the British electronic duo The Propellerheads recorded and performed History Repeating with Shirley Bassey. The single reached #1 hit on the U.K. Indie Chart and #10 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, Dame Shirley's first top-10 hit on any U.S. chart since 1973's Never Never Never. According to Bassey, Alex Gifford, half the duo, wrote the song especially for her. The video poked loving fun at Brit TV's Jazz 625, and the Propellerhead's album's cover paid homage ...
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Documentary: Dame Shirley Bassey
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Most Americans know Shirley Bassey only from her three brassy James Bond film themes—Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker. In the U.K., Dame Shirley was enormously popular from the late 1950s on. She delivered on stage the way Judy Garland did, belted songs out the way Barbra Streisand did and was as coy and as intriguing as Nancy Wilson. Yet she never crossed over to the U.S. pop market. While she appeared occasionally in Las Vegas and on American TV ...
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Shirley Bassey: "Goldfinger"
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Dame Shirley Bassey finally invaded America. At last night's 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, the 76-year-old, Welsh-born pop singer brought Hollywood's elite to their feet with a rousing and coy performance of Goldfingerthe James Bond movie theme she first recorded in 1964 and made famous in the years that followed. Though Dame Shirley eventually would record two additional Bond themesDiamonds are Forever (1971) and Moonraker (1979)Goldfinger was her only Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1965, with the movie's soundtrack reaching ...
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